Exciting new spiraly bicycle path under a railway station. This was a vast improvement on the steep steps we had to deal when we cane through here last year. There was even a ramp back out of the other side as well. Even better, there was a wide, traffic free cycleway across the river about 500 metres away.
It would have been perfect if the route between the spiral and the bridge had been a traffic free cycle route instead of a car park, a patch of waste ground, and a busy road.
Still, one thing at a time. Maybe that’ll be sorted out by next year…
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June 27, 2012 at 9:24 am
teigl
That’s a superb photo, Andy. Good to see that cycling infrastructure is being built in these straitened times, and that your local government at least cares about something unlike in my little bit of the United Kingdom.
June 27, 2012 at 9:43 am
Andy in Germany
Thains Iain. have to keep reminding myself that although south Germany isn’t brilliant at this, at least there is something.
I think it’s partly because this is on the tourist cycleway along the Neckar river to Tübingen, which does bring a lot of cyclists (and therefore money) into the region, but also because the heavy rail metro has been extended through this station so there is a very high potential to get more commuters travelling into Stuttgart. I suspect they’re trying to stop too many people coming by car: I think most towns (well, except Ostfildern, obviously) have realised that it’s cheaper to encourage bikes.